Driving home today from Winnipeg was totally tiring, but the highways were great. We took Yellowhead route and it was double lane all the way home....perfect. The scenary severly sucked. No snow to brighten the landscape, no sunshine to lighten the sky....so I slept a lot, or at least rested my eyes. My husband, myself and another couple travelled together down to Wpg. to watch the Grey Cup and take in some of the venues. wow....the sights that I beheld.
First the woman at the airport who was working the Information booth had had wayyyy to much coffee....she spoke at double the rate of any normal human being possible....hard to keep up to that. We trundled through the parking lot looking for our car that we were to pick up there, the only way to find it was to keep clicking the remote....wait for the horn to honk. Did not take long but was a little strange wandering about the parking lot with luggage in hand and the remote held high.....I am sure people passing by musta thought we were more than a little nuts. Got to our hotel easily. Met with some very nice people through the lobby entrance and became kinda friendly with them over the next couple of days......but can some people slam back a lot of beer NON STOP. It seemed like these new found friends stories were always about the consumption of beer....strange.....but believe me they were not the only ones. We visited a convention centre entirely dedicated to fans of football, one called "Riderville". My first observation was that their seemed to be more Rider fans than any other, surely I must be mistaken.....wrong, I believe that 70% of the fan base in Winnipeg was Riders, at least in any venue we took part in or visited!!! There was Green and White EVERYWHERE!!! even a few "melon heads" showed up. You know the guys who carve out watermelons and put them on their heads like helmets....yeah, well, whatever!!
The section of seating that we witnessed the Grey Cup game from was filled with Rider fans, most of them wearing something green to identify themselves as Rider fans. Talk about a large family unit, if you met a person with a Rider logo/or Rider colors on.....they smiled and conversed like you were their best friend. Amazing stuff, I tell ya.
Some people dress up like superheroes....they drape their team banner on their back, they wear crazy hair/hats, paint their face, dawn on some of the wildest gear I have ever witnessed just to claim the fame of their favorite team and it would seem they proceed to drink themselves into a stupor. Not everyone was a drinking fool, but there were plenty of them.....and one just shakes their heads and wonders what they do to get their livers healthy again....if ever. Most of the fans are there for the good natured fun and frivolity in the spirit of the game....not a fight broke out, not too many nasty words spoken of another team (there are always those who open mouths and let "junk" fall out).
All in all it was quite an experience. Lots of good natured laughter, lots of meeting new people from all across the country.....and lots of strange and wonderful pictures to bring back the memory of the Grey Cup 2006.
Okay, the picture that my husband took is priceless.....
While we waited at the shuttle stop, a few VERY FULL shuttles passed us. I mean they could not squeeze another person in 'em. One of the buses back doors was very different, two very white butts stared back out.....turns out a couple of very brave and not so bright fans decided to "moon" everyone they passed by. That had to have been cold on the tush.....but then again, some people will do anything for their moment in the sun....or "moon" as those two did.
Strange goings on....oh yeah....but the laughter was heard coming and going all the way down the street.....
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